Scolytus amygdali Guérin-Méneville, 1847

Beaver, Roger A., Ghahari, Hassan & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2016, An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4098 (3), pp. 401-441 : 417-418

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:00F1BDB5-AB25-47A0-B789-2E05D2E683DE
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5669470
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B5C9A7C-4741-FFC6-C797-E053FDA7FE5B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Scolytus amygdali Guérin-Méneville, 1847
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Distribution in Iran. Alborz, Tehran ( Magowski et al. 2007), Mazandaran ( Samin et al. 2011), East Azarbaijan, Isfahan, Kermanshah, central provinces ( Modarres Awal 1997).

General distribution. Central and southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Pakistan.

Biology. This species breeds in trees of the family Rosaceae (e.g. Amygdalus , Mespilus , Prunus ). It has been recorded from Prunus amygdalus , P. armeniaca , Persica vulgaris (Rosaceae) , and Ailanthus altissima (Simaroubaceae) in Iran ( Modarres Awal 1997). Its biology has been described by Russo (1931) and Zeiri et al. (2011, 2015). It is a pest of rosaceous fruit trees in Israel ( Mendel et al. 1997).

Comments. Cerocephala cornigera Westwood, 1832 ( Hymenoptera : Pteromalidae ) is a parasitoid of S. amygdali in Iran ( Abd-Rabou et al. 2005).